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Greece’s first vaccinations against the coronavirus (Covid-19) were performed in reference hospitals of Attica on Sunday, in accordance with the Greek government’s vaccination operation dubbed
“Eleftheria”.
The country’s vaccinations were in line with the EU Vaccination Days, which sees the first Europeans being vaccinated on the same days (December 27, 28 and 29).
European Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday tweeted:
“Today the first Europeans are getting vaccinated against COVID-19. I’m touched to see people taking the vaccine everywhere across the EU. From Madrid to Paris, Athens to Riga. First we protect the more vulnerable. Soon we’ll have enough doses for all of us.”
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A person receives Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine at the Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, in Turin, Italy, on Dec. 27, 2020. Nations across Europe began their COVID-19 vaccination effort on Sunday. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The European Union began a mass vaccination campaign on Sunday to eventually inoculate some 450 million people in 27 member-states against COVID-19.
EU leaders have negotiated contracts for more than 2 billion vaccine doses from various suppliers. The first 200 million doses are of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, which was co-developed by a husband-and-wife team in Mainz, Germany.